Remember Sanford Wallace? A little less than a year ago, MySpace won a lawsuit against him after filing it about a year earlier based on a phishing scheme carried out six months before that. He created profiles, groups, and forums on MySpace to lead users to his sites.
Now he is back in the news getting sued by MySpace rival Facebook. Inside Facebook reports:
Three months after being awarded $873 million in a lawsuit against Atlantis Blue Capital for violating the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, Facebook earlier this week filed a federal complaint against “Spam King” Sanford Wallace in San Jose District Court. Las Vegas night club manager Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw are also named as defendants in the suit…
Arzoomanian (or someone using his identity) seems to have appeared on the spamming scene more recently. In November 2008, a careful Facebook user blogged about a password harvesting scam he discovered by someone using domains registered to Arzoomanian’s name.
Wallace has quite the track record of lawsuits. besides MySpace, he has been sued by AOL, Concentric Network, CompuServe, and even the Federal Trade Commission, for which he paid $4 million. He has earned the nick name “spam king.”
Speaking of spam lawsuits involving the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC sued Impulse Media Group for spam that was sent via its affiliates. The case went to jury and found that Impulse Media should not be held liable. This case is discussed by a couple of lawyers in this interesting video from the SMX West show:
